

“If you look at the structure of it, all of the major characters have time in the story in which they tell the story, so it ends up being more about the ways in which this man’s life are formed from the stories people tell about his life,“ Zevin said. “It has a very sort of pure storytelling construction.” “This one felt a little bit easier because so much of it is about storytelling, and about the structure of stories itself, so I think knowing that, it kind of easily worked into a three-act structure despite the fact that it takes place over time,” Zevin said. Zevin, whose first trip to theaters post-COVID was for this film, adapted the screenplay and produced the film, with her partner and frequent collaborator Hans Canosa directing. 7, with visual effects taking up until release to complete. I was involved in every part of it: development, production and post production.”įilming began in November 2021, and the film landed in select theaters Oct. “So in a sense, I wasn’t like that author walking onto the set and everything’s built. Look at my world brought to life’ and I think that’s because I was so granularly involved in every part of it,” she said. I don’t know if I’m broken inside, but I don’t have that feeling of, ‘Oh, wow. “As soon as I’m done with a book, it’s dead to me. How ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Stars Mila Kunis and Chiara Aurelia Played 3 Versions of the Same CharacterĪs for how she feels about this particular book to screen adaptation and its release into theaters (and more broadly the world), she has mastered the psychological separation of book and film.
